The French School, Aberdeen Grammar School, Skene Street, Aberdeen

Mid 19th century; remodelled A Marshall Mackenzie, 1898; late 20th century additions and alterations. Single storey and attic, 5-bay, L-plan former Westfield School, now French School. Tooled coursed granite ashlar finely finished to margins; harled with finely finished margins to NE elevation. Base course; chamfered reveals; predominantly pointed-arched openings; decorative eaves cornice.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 5-bay; gabled bay advanced to outer right, 4-light traceried window to centre with hoodmould with decorative label stops; tooled tablet set in gablehead reading "School for Poor Girls ..."; stone fleur-de-lys to apex; gabled porch advanced to left, hoodmould to doorway with decorative label stops, modern addition obscuring ground floor of 3 recessed bays to left; gableted window to centre of attic floor breaking eaves, tooled shield set in gablehead, flanked to let and right by flat-roofed bipartite rectangular dormers breaking eaves.

SE ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay; traceried window to each bay.

NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 5-bay; flat-arched doorway to penultimate bay to left, stepped hoodmould, panelled timber door, flanked to right by 2 bipartite windows; gabled bays to left and right with decoratively traceried 4-light windows, oculus set in gablehead of bay to right; fleur-de-lys finial to apex of bay to left. Single storey flat-roofed link with window to centre adjoining modern block to outer right.

NW ELEVATION: predominantly obscured by modern addition.

Variety of timber-framed windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge; octagonal louvred timber ventilator to ridge with fish-scale slate roof and weathervane to apex; evenly spaced louvred gableted ventilators breaking pitch. Coped stone skews. Corniced granite gablehead stacks, ridge stacks and stacks breaking pitch, with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.